If I survive you / Jonathan Escoffery.
By: Escoffery, Jonathan.
Publisher: London : 4th Estate, 2024Description: 272 pages ; 20 cm.ISBN: 9780008685799 (pbk.) :; 0008685797 (pbk.) :.Subject(s): Jamaicans -- Florida -- Miami -- Fiction | General | Fiction of Black and Asian Interest | Fiction & related items | Modern & contemporary fiction | Short stories | Housing & homelessness | Social impact of disastersSummary: 1979. Topper and Sanya flee to Miami as political violence consumes their native Kingston. But they soon learn that the welcome in America will be far from warm. Trelawny, their youngest son, comes of age in a society which regards him with suspicion and confusion, greeting him with the puzzled question 'What are you?' Their eldest son Delano's longing for a better future for his own children is equalled only by his recklessness in trying to secure it. As both brothers navigate the obstacles littered in their path - an unreliable father, racism, a financial crisis and Hurricane Andrew - they find themselves pitted against one another. Will their rivalry be the thing that finally tears their family apart?| Item type | Home library | Class number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reservations | |
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Originally published: 2022.
1979. Topper and Sanya flee to Miami as political violence consumes their native Kingston. But they soon learn that the welcome in America will be far from warm. Trelawny, their youngest son, comes of age in a society which regards him with suspicion and confusion, greeting him with the puzzled question 'What are you?' Their eldest son Delano's longing for a better future for his own children is equalled only by his recklessness in trying to secure it. As both brothers navigate the obstacles littered in their path - an unreliable father, racism, a financial crisis and Hurricane Andrew - they find themselves pitted against one another. Will their rivalry be the thing that finally tears their family apart?